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Deeper and Deeper Throat (Newsweek)
The Plame drama thickens, as Washington once again tries to guess who Bob Woodward's been talking to. Some say it's former deputy secretary of State Richard Armitage. Reuters: Woodward rebuked. NYT: Howard Kurtz grills his own boss on TV about the leak case. LAT: Woodward joins a decadent dance, writes Tim Rutten. Time: During his time with the prosecutor, Woodward said, he found Fitzgerald "incredibly sensitive to what we do. He didn't infringe on my other reporting, which frankly surprised me." E&P: Post ombuds, past and present, say Woodward needs watching.

TiVo to Enable iPod TV Show Transfers (LAT)
The company is expected to announce a service that allows its digital video recorders to save programs to iPods and PlayStation Portables, further untethering television from time and place. Time: Buying a slice of a sitcom and further muddling TV's primetime.

Sync Sunk (NYT)
Sync, a men's magazine devoted to electronic gear and gadgetry, will close after 18 months of publication, Ziff Davis Media said. The final issue will be on newsstands Dec. 6.

Scandals Don't Deter J-Students (USAT)
Despite trying times, students and journalism professors say that interest in joining the news business remains high and that the adversity shaking the industry could make it stronger.

A Lifetime Subscription and a Gold Watch? (Page Six)
How much was Judy Miller's golden parachute? The guesses range as high as $3 million. One source says Miller was paid three years salary in severance, three years as a bonus, plus Times Co. health benefits for the rest of her life.

MoDo: Papers Need More Female Columnists (E&P)
"I think that there are a lot of woman right at The Times and at other newspapers across the country who would make fantastic columnists," said Maureen Dowd in an interview. "And I really wish it were 50 percent women, at least, if not 100 percent."

Bringing Out the Dead (AP via Yahoo!)
During the last week of September, there were 63 dead bodies visible during prime time on the six broadcast networks. That's up sharply from the 27 bodies counted during the same week in 2004.

Oh, Yoko (Rush and Molloy)
Yoko Ono is furious at Dateline NBC for marking the 25th anniversary of husband John Lennon's murder by giving airtime to his killer. "The timing of this is macabre," Ono's spokesman says. "She thinks it's outrageous."

How Google Cleaned Up Web Ads (NYT)
Today, Web advertisers by and large have put down their weapons and sworn off violence. They use indoor voices now. This is a remarkable change. Thank you, Google.

Knight of the Living Dead (WSJ)
Media groups that might reasonably be expected to jump at the opportunity to acquire Knight Ridder, like Gannett and the New York Times Co., have expressed zero interest. The company has been publishing mostly second-rate newspapers for as long as anyone can remember.

Extra! Extra! Read All About You! (WaPo)
Gene Weingarten: Editors seem to believe that the way to attract more readers is to be nicer and more responsive to them, reversing a hallowed, hundred-year tradition in which journalists treated readers like fungi.

Celeb Mags on Shakedown Street (Mediaweek)
Over the past decade, several magazine categories, including teen, laddie men's books, and technology, have experienced a gold rush of new titles only to be followed by a shakeout of superfluous ones. Now it seems celebrity weeklies are the latest genre that may face the same fate.

How 'New Journalism' Became Old News (NY Sun)
Gerald Russello: A new book shows how, by the time Tom Wolfe coined the phrase, it was already dying, killed by poor imitation, the growth of television and its own self-indulgent weaknesses.

Moss Takes New York Higher (Marketwatch)
Jon Friedman: Adam Moss, New York's editor-in-chief since March 2004, is chasing its legacy—and building one of his own, getting high marks for sharpening the mag's writing and broadening its national appeal.

Anonymously Yours (NYT)
Byron Calame: Since Bill Keller set some first-year goals in his latest changes - such as making the use of anonymous sources the "exception" rather than "routine" - and we're nearly halfway there, it seems like a good time to assess the state of confidential sourcing at the paper.

Will Sirius Get Serious With Stern? (NYP)
To keep subscriber totals growing faster than customers drop away, Sirius has gone the celebrity route, seducing Howard Stern to leave the Infinity Broadcasting radio network that had been distributing his show for years. Will it work?

'Digging Until it Hurts' (WaPo)
Howard Kurtz: Investigative reporters are, by their nature, dogged, tenacious and deeply suspicious. Some continue that quest long after their support evaporates, their evidence crumbles and even their employers abandon them.

Local Media Need Support in Disaster Areas (CSM)
Edward Girardet: What previous disasters such as Rwanda, Kosovo, and the Indian Ocean tsunami have shown only too clearly is the powerful impact credible information can have—not only on improving humanitarian coordination and response, but also, most critically, in saving lives.

—David S. Hirschman

IN FRIDAY'S MB BLOGS:

Baghdad Bombers Target Journos Again; NBC Staffers Were "Blown Out Of Bed" [TVNewser]
"Two suicide bombers on Friday targeted a hotel compound that houses a number of news organizations, including NBC News, but failed to pierce the perimeter," MSNBC.com says.

Bob's Buddy [FishbowlDC]
John Harris is to Bob Woodward what Lou Dobbs was to Judy Miller: The first to treat Curiously Suspect Journalist with felt gloves.

HuffParty Part II: Last One In The Pool's A Dirty Rotten Egg! [FishbowlNY]
We bring you part two of our coverage of Arianna Huffington's party in LA on Wednesday night.

Rachel McAdams pursuit getting a little bit dramatic... [FishbowlLA]
A parting thought for a techno-snafu-riddled Friday: Who'll sign Rachel McAdams?

Google, Publishing Reps Trade Rhetorical Blows [Galleycat]
The more I think about it, with all the pending litigation, it's pretty amazing that last night's New York Public Library debate between Google and the authors and publishers groups was able to take place at all.

The Literary Lynching of Brad Vice? [MBToolbox]
In what could be considered a lesson to everyone out there, even Flannery O'Connor Award winners are liable to the complications of copyright law.